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Cement sunrise
tarboat has posted:Cold winter morning at the Huanan cement factory. Heilongjiang Province, North-east China.
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Yuanbaoshan power
tarboat has posted:Yuanbaoshan power station is an 1,800 MW coal-fired plant in the Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. The three units currently in operation came on line between `1985 and 2007....
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Tippler
tarboat has posted:Tippler at a small coal mine near Xinghua, Jixi, Heilongjiang Province, China. This is typical of the many thousands of small drift mines to be found throughout China. Not a lot...
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Zhengyang Colliery
tarboat has posted:SY 1369 shunts a train from Xinhua Colliery at the reversing point at Zhengyang Colliery on the Jixi Coal Railway. The headframe in the background shows that this colliery is...
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Last days of Baotou steam
tarboat has posted:Last weeks of steam at the Baotou steelworks. SY 1431 loiters at the servicing point whilst another of the class heads for the tips with a load of slag ladles. We were probably the...
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Steelworks landscape
tarboat has posted:Baotou Iron and Steel Group, Baotou Steel or Baogang Group is an iron and steel state-owned enterprise in Baotou, Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. It was reorganized in 1998 from...
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Faku branch
tarboat has posted:Whilst taking a trip on the Faku branch northwards from Diaobingshan on the Tiefa Coal Railway I recorded SY 1749 leaving a station somewhere north of Faku towards Kanping....
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Kiln top
tarboat has posted:On top of a limekiln at Yangjiazhangzi west of Huludao in Liaoning Province, China. This is a two pot draw kiln but only one was in use at this time.
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Hot potatoes
tarboat has posted:At the level crossing outside the locomotive depot in Pingdingshan the fast food offering included this mobile hot sweet potato stall. Just the thing for breakfast on a foggy morning.
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Starting young
tarboat has posted:A young steam enthusiast at the window of a coach on the Shibanxi Coal Railway at the lower terminus. The line at the time was the only means of transport to the viilages between...
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Small mine
tarboat has posted:Lots to see in this view over the head of a small drift mine at Hegang. On this cold morning a mist arises from the drift whilst a tub stands on the spur onto the spoil tipping...
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Shot tower
tarboat has posted:The lead shot tower stands in the centre of the lead smelting complex of the Baiyin Nonferrous Group Co Ltd. This is just one of a number of metal processing works in the area which...
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Lindong South Pagoda
tarboat has posted:This pagoda at Lindong stands on a hill overlooking the railway station. Lindong was the site of the Superior Capital of the Liao Dynasty which ruled over Northeast China, the...
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Huanan
tarboat has posted:C2 class No.041 shunts at the Huanan Town terminus of the Huanan Coal Railway. The wagons were all conversions of those originally used for carrying logs which was the original...
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Brick kilns
tarboat has posted:A pair of downdraught kilns at a brickworks at Qiaotou near Nanpiao. This is the only place where I have seen kilns built with a stone outer structure.
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Coal loading
tarboat has posted:Coal loading point at a drift mine in the Didao area of Jixi. The left side is for rail wagons and the right side for lorries.
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Dalu coal mine
tarboat has posted:Coal mining 'slants' at Dalu in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, North-East China. There are headgears here for three separate slants.
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Beichang
tarboat has posted:There isn't much wasted when it comes to the Chinese coal industry. Here at the Beichang washery the slurry from the separators is run into lagoons to dry out and is then dug out and...
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Guangshan Washery
tarboat has posted:SY 1091 shunts coal wagons in the washery at Guangshan Mine, Beipiao. It was seriously cold as can be seen from the icicles hanging from the coal wagons. I am glad that I managed a...
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Small mines
tarboat has posted:A typical small Chinese drift coal mine at Xinghua near Jixi. The building in the foreground is a winding house and the haulage rope can be seen running over a pulley above the...
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